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Dawn LAMO Image 76

Dawn LAMO Image 76
Photojournal: PIA20571
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 27, 2016

NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Sekhet Crater on Ceres has prominent shadows accentuating its central peak and mounds of material that have slumped downward from its walls.

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